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Wall Street Journal • Heather Somerville

Castelion and startups raise $350M as U.S. races to close hypersonic gap with Russia and China

Castelion and peer startups have secured $350 million in fresh capital as the U.S. moves to close a hypersonic weapons gap with Russia and China. The funding will accelerate development and integration of Mach‑5 strike systems as industry and government push to field competitive capabilities.

2025-12-05T03:28:58.414019-08:00

FlightGlobal

Administrators close in on sale of Reaction Engines' assets to preferred bidder

2025-12-01T03:58:11.056236-08:00

Aviation Week

Lockheed Martin Ventures backs Venus Aerospace to advance rotating detonation engines for hypersonic flight

2025-10-22T14:56:43.843742-07:00

FlightGlobal

Hermeus shows Quarterhorse Mk2 on landing gear as assembly moves toward maiden flight this year

2025-09-12T15:29:49.090656-07:00

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Wall Street Journal

Castelion and startups raise $350M as U.S. races to close hypersonic gap with Russia and China Castelion and peer startups have secured $350 million in fresh capital as the U.S. moves to close a hypersonic weapons gap with Russia and China. The funding will accelerate development and integration of Mach‑5 strike systems as industry and government push to field competitive capabilities.

2025-12-05T03:28:58.414019-08:00

Castelion and startups raise $350M as U.S. races to close hypersonic gap with Russia and China

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin opens 17,000 sq ft Hypersonics System Integration Lab in Huntsville Lockheed Martin has opened a 17,000‑square‑foot Hypersonics System Integration Lab at its Huntsville campus, a roughly $17.1 million facility designed to accelerate integration, testing and maturation of next‑generation hypersonic weapons. The SIL aims to shorten development timelines and bolster U.S. high‑speed defense capabilities.

2025-12-03T06:51:05.042885-08:00

Lockheed Martin opens 17,000 sq ft Hypersonics System Integration Lab in Huntsville

FlightGlobal

Administrators close in on sale of Reaction Engines' assets to preferred bidder Insolvency administrators for UK-based Reaction Engines are reported to be close to agreeing a sale of the collapsed company's assets to a preferred bidder, a move that will transfer ownership of its hypersonic technology, associated engineering programmes and intellectual property to a new owner.

2025-12-01T03:58:11.056236-08:00

Administrators close in on sale of Reaction Engines' assets to preferred bidder

cornishstuff.com

Spaceport Cornwall Shortlisted by ESA for INVICTUS Hypersonic Test Programme

2025-11-26T23:44:31.525102-08:00

realcleardefense.com

China’s Military Satellites Bolster Missile and Hypersonic Forces China’s expanding military satellite constellation is directly enhancing the operational reach and lethality of its missile and hypersonic forces by providing space-based sensing, targeting, secure communications and command-and-control support. The closer integration of orbital systems with strike networks is altering timelines and deterrence dynamics.

2025-11-26T20:30:27.775570-08:00

China’s Military Satellites Bolster Missile and Hypersonic Forces

satnews

Firefly joins Kratos' MACH-TB 2.0 to help enable weekly U.S. hypersonic test launches Firefly Aerospace has joined Kratos Defense's MACH-TB 2.0 coalition to help accelerate U.S. hypersonic testing, contributing launch and test capabilities as the team pursues Kratos' stated goal of achieving one hypersonic test launch per week to compress development and validation cycles.

2025-11-23T18:44:29.769442-08:00

Firefly joins Kratos' MACH-TB 2.0 to help enable weekly U.S. hypersonic test launches

SpaceQ

T‑Minus Engineering launches Barracuda hypersonic suborbital rocket from Spaceport Nova Scotia T‑Minus Engineering's Barracuda hypersonic suborbital rocket lifted off from Spaceport Nova Scotia at 10:54 a.m. this morning, conducting a dedicated hypersonic suborbital flight test from the eastern Canadian launch site. The mission advances flight‑test activity for the Barracuda program and the nascent Nova Scotia spaceport.

2025-11-20T10:07:43.424815-08:00

T‑Minus Engineering launches Barracuda hypersonic suborbital rocket from Spaceport Nova Scotia

404media.co

Ukraine's 'Night Watch' uses electronic warfare to spoof, divert Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missiles Ukraine's Night Watch unit is using electronic warfare and navigation spoofing to jam and misdirect Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, decoying them into empty fields and away from intended targets, undermining the operational effectiveness of a weapon once touted as hard to defeat.

2025-11-20T07:27:32.784913-08:00

Ukraine's 'Night Watch' uses electronic warfare to spoof, divert Russia's Kinzhal hypersonic missiles

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